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Item Estilos de vida saludables de los estudiantes de la Corporación Universitaria Lasallista. Agosto 2004(Corporación Universitaria Lasallista, 2004) Rodríguez Gázquez, María de los Ángeles; Castañeda Gallego, Alba Doris; Correa Vargas, Lía Rosa; Sarabia Londoño, MauricioIntroduction: Heart diseases are a frequent cause of illness and death in our country. There is enough scientific evidence that shows that healthy life styles prevent the appearing of those diseases. Objective: To establish the frequency of exposition to risky factors concerning heart diseases for Corporación Universitaria Lasallista´s students, aiming to acquire information that helps in the development of strategies for avoiding those factors. Materials and methods: A descriptive study was made, using a self-applied survey to get the information. After criticizing the collected data, a data base in the SPSS vr. 11.00 software was created, and this was also used to process the information. In the analysis for hypothetical proofs, these were contrasted with the X2 test when prevalences were compared, and with the t student t´test when the comparison of media rates was made. The statistic significance was assumed when the probability value was les than 0.05. Results: A considerable proportion of the students have inadequate life styles, and this means procrastinated risks for heart disease. Some conducts were particularly worrying, as the total lack of exercise (48%), smoking (36%) and weight increase (overweight 9.5% and obesity 0.5%). The data showed that women have better protective behaviors than men, concerning heart diseases. Conclusion: Corporación Universitaria Lasallista´s students have a considerable measurement of exposition to risky factors concerning heart diseases, through their life styles. Therefore, the adoption of strategies to create healthier life styles among them, is recommended.Item Los residuos sólidos municipales como acondicionadores de suelos(Corporación Universitaria Lasallista, 2004) Puerta Echeverri, Silvia MaríaThe compostation made from organic remains produced by municipals, can be a liability and cause damage when used as soil conditioners, because of the excess of inert materials, stinking emissions, high salinity levels, toxicity due to organic contaminants or heavy metals, immaturity of the process and the presence of pathogenic organisms. Given all this factors, it is necessary to evaluate all of the physical, chemical and microbiological parameters of the process, keeping in mind the corresponding Colombian laws on the subject, which regulates the organic materials used as fertilizers and soil conditioners in Colombia: Colombian Technical norm 5167 and the resolution 00150 of January 21st of 2003, made by the Colombian Agro-Cultural Institute, ICA.Item Arequipe con fruta, alternativa agroindustrial para aumentar valor agregado(Corporación Universitaria Lasallista, 2004) Cortés Arango, Astrid Lorena; Ortega Arellano, Lucila MaríaA research was made taking advantage of the high acceptation consumers have of the traditional product known as arequipe, and an added value was given to it by the addition of natural fruit’s fruits flavor. Our aim was to develop a new product with the desired characteristics of taste, odor and color which are the appropriate for each fruit, without affecting some of the organoleptic properties of the arequipe, such as its soft texture and its mellow consistence, which allows it to be softly sproden on other foods.Item Impacto del manejo integral de los residuos sólidos en la Corporación Universitaria Lasallista(Corporación Universitaria Lasallista, 2004) Castrillón Quintana, Olivia; Puerta Echeverri, Silvia MaríaIntroduction: The environmental problems produced by the increase of solid wastes are due, partly, to a lack of education and environmental responsibility to separate them in the very source and use them again as raw material in the fabrication of new products. The Integral Management of Solid Waste (MIRS, in Spanish) contributes to the sustainable saving of natural resources. Objective: Evaluating the impact of the MIRS program in the Corporación Universitaria Lasallista. Methodology: The MIRS program was implemented and, later, the educational experiences and certain economic profits were evaluated. These profits include savings in the public cleanliness fees, the production of compost and the sale of recycling materials. Results: In 5 semesters developing the program $18´ 114.772 Colombian Pesos were saved in cleanliness fees, diminishing the the volume of waste for their final disposal. Other benefits included the production of compost and the sale of recycling materials. Conclusions: Implementing MIRS has been an excellent experience, due to the environmental education campaign in which all of the academic members have been involved, A special commitment has been kept by our students and faculty members from the SISMO Young Researchers Group and the General Services staff from Corporación Universitaria Lasallista.Item Satisfacción de los graduandos con la formación recibida en la Corporación Universitaria Lasallista, marzo de 2004(Corporación Universitaria Lasallista, 2004) Rodríguez Gázquez, María de los ÁngelesIntroduction: The opinion of the university community is very important to establish a perception of the quality in the tuition received. The people which are just about to get their degrees are the ones who can be evaluated in the most sensitive way, under terms of satisfaction with their professors, deans, the course plans and the different academic and administrative processes which are pertaining to their studies. Objective: To evaluate the satisfaction rate of the alumni with the tuition received from Corporación Universitaria Lasallista, with the aim of obtaining useful information and define actions in order to increase the quality of the undergraduate programs. Materials and methods: A descriptive study was made, using as information collector a self-applied survey. The satisfaction was graded in values from 0 to 5 (0 for a total insatisfaction and 5 for a maximum satisfaction). The information was verted on a data base designed for the study, made with SPSS vr.11 software, and a statistical analysis was made by using the same software. Results: In general, a very good satisfaction level with tuition, professors and deans of the programs was registered. Conclussions: It is very satisfactory for Corporación Universitaria Lasallista that the alumni from March 2004 have an adequate satisfaction level with the tuition provided by the institution in their undergraduate studies.Item La biofiltración, una alternativa para la potabilización del agua(Corporación Universitaria Lasallista, 2004) Arango Ruiz, Álvaro de JesúsIn current times, the population from developing countries is experiencing a lack of basic sanitary conditions, including the potable water to satisfy their needs. The lack of water potabilization is associated to illness and death among children because of hydric origin diseases. The lack of water available and properly treated for human use, brings the need to get interested on innovative projects in this field, as biofiltration, introducing efficient treatment, potabilization and distribution alternatives which must be easy to be reached and economically viable for the people.Item Extracción de taninos presentes en el banano verde(Corporación Universitaria Lasallista, 2004) Velásquez Valderrama, Ángela MaríaIntroduction: Green rejected bananas are a remain from harvests, they contain high quantities of tannins and polyphenols and low contents of fibers and proteins. Tannins are antinutritional substances, and that is why they do not allow the use of rejected green bananas (“boleja”) in animal feeding, as an energy source. The selective extraction with solvents is a route of separation to obtain tannins. The results shown in this work are an evidence that this separation method is effective to remove tannins from the “boleja”. Objective: Extract the tannins from rejected green bananas (“boleja”) using the extraction with solvents. Materials and methods: The obtaining of alcoholic and watery extracts and their qualitative evaluation was made by combining different extraction and qualitative tannin´s determination procedures, thoroughly shown in the chemical and instrumental analysis literature. The quantitative tannin´s analysis was made by colorimetric methods, using a UV/VIS spectrophotometer in which the samples were read at 700 mn and referred to tannic acid. As a reference substance tannic acid from the Merck brand was used. To measure the absorbing rate a UV-VIS SPECTRONIC-20 spectrophotometer was used. Results: the lineal correlation coefficients calculated for the calibration curves were: From tannic acid: 0.9983, from sample A –alcoholic extract: 0.9977, from sample A –watery extract: 0.9822, from sample B: -Alcoholic extract: 0.9999 and from sample B watery extract: 0.9938. Conclusion: The extraction of tannins from rejected green bananas (“boleja”) with a 1:1 methanol-water solution is more efficient and effective than tannin´s extraction with water.Item Porquinaza en la alimentación animal(Corporación Universitaria Lasallista, 2004) Castrillón Quintana, Olivia; Jiménez Pérez, Ricardo Andrés; Bedoya Mejía, OswaldoIn the whole world, the biggest problems faced by pig breeders is the generation of feces, which having a great potential of nutrients, contaminate the environment and can become the main obstacle for the future of the animal industry. Pig feces have been handled traditionally under a pigs-lawn-milk system, using the soil improvement for lawn with the fertilization of organic material, obtaining a better dairy production. To use the contents of the nutrients contained specially by pig’s manure, an alternative can be the conversion to unicellular protein, in a solid state fermentation process with microorganisms.Item Impacto social en los participantes del Programa de Educación Sanitaria en Manipulación de Alimentos y Convivencia Social(Corporación Universitaria Lasallista, 2004) Alzate Tamayo, Luz María; Sandino Restrepo, María del CarmenIntroduction: Since 1997, the Engineering Program of Corporación Universitaria Lasallista has been developing a task of social projection, with the “Sanitary Education Program on Food Handling and Social Coexistence” addressed to parents from the 1st and 2nd stratification levels who work, mainly, in school restaurants, street food sales, domestic service work and social programs of community mothers. The program is financially supported by the Rodrigo Arroyave Arango Foundation since 1998. Objective: To measure the impact of this program among its participants. Materials and methods: To collect information, a survey was applied to the participants and an observation guide for the visits to school restaurants, community homes and other places, was used. Results: The program has had a great impact, because it has allowed an increase of the usual food handling practices, diminishing the risk of gastrointestinal diseases among the children from community homes and school restaurants. Further benefits were found, specially those related to self-confidence, the respect to others and tolerance to family and neighbors, increasing the quality of life of the participants and their families. Conclusion: The Corporación Universitaria Lasallista must keep on offering this program, making trough it a contribution to the reconstruction of social tissue in our region.Item Los coleópteros y el compost(2004) Arango Gutiérrez, Gloria Patricia; Vásquez Villegas, Erika MaríaColeopteras are well known as among the coleoptera order we have the Scarabaideae and Sthaphylinaidae families that help to degradate the organic material, although there is not a thorough knowledge of the conditions under which they act. It is very important to obtain information on how to help to improve the quality of compost, because many benefits would be obtained in several aspects. The compost is of the best organic fetillizers that can be obtained in an easy way. Coleopteras can be present as one link of the alimentary chain, performing as decomposers or transformers of solid organic waste.Item Curvas de crecimiento de crías de vacuno levantadas en la Corporación Universitaria Lasallista(2004) Agudelo Gómez, Divier AntonioIntroduction: One of the problems found in cattle exploitations is to typify the weighting of calves so they can be compared. To the moment, the most common practice in those exploitations is a lineal interpolation between two consecutive weightings, method that imposes severe restrictions concerning the period of time between weightings and determines the elimination of a great number of registrations. Objective: To make a graphic representation of the growth curves of four calves, in order to obtain the most appropriate equation for a better adjustment. Materials and methods: Four calves were monitored during 8 months (two Holstein cow calves, a Holstein bull calf and a mixed male bull calf, all of them born in close dates), the growth system used was bucket-stake. The males consumed milk until they were 85 days old and the females until they were 70, every day they were given 4 litters of milk-replacer: Processed cattle food was given to them until their fifth month, and in this period each animal consumed 12 kg for a daily media rate of 80 gr. When they were two months old, the bucket-stake system was changed to a rotatory cattle keeping system on Pennisetum clandestinum grass (kikuyu). Since their first month of life, they were given 10 kg of Arachis pintoi (forage peanut) not dehydrated, coming from the pruning of the garden keepers from the Corporación´s facilities. The data collection was made every week using a bovine metric tape. Results: A total number of 31 observations was obtained. The growth speed was higher in the bull calves, fact that can be explained by the higher consuming of milk replacer, because they had more access to it. The daily rate of weight gain was 589gr and 518 for the males and the females, respectively.Item El desarrollo de productos como estrategia formativa de ingenieros de alimentos(Corporación Universitaria Lasallista, 2004) Moncayo Castillo, Franco AlexisItem Fotocatálisis de aguas residuales de la industria textil utilizando colector solar(Corporación Universitaria Lasallista, 2004) Garcés Giraldo, Luís Fernando; Peñuela Mesa, Gustavo AntonioIntroduction: Photocatalysis made with sun light appears as a simple and economic alternative to treat wastewater, colored with dyes from the textile industry. The use of this technology for the degradation and mineralization the 84 orange reactive dyes, can open a new route different from the traditional oxidation processes. Objective: To study the photocatalysis with TiO2 in colored wastewater using a sunlight collector. Materials and Methods: A sunlight collector made up by three modules (each one made up by eight glass Schott-Duran pipes) was used. Each glass pipe is 48 cm of external diameter and 150 cm long and also contains an aluminum sheet, which allows the reflection of sunlight. The whole device had a re-circulation bomb and a thank, the sunlight collector had an inclination of 6 degrees in comparison with the floor and was facing North because it must be located according to the geographic position of the place. Only one condition was modificated for each experiment with the objective of studying its influence in the dye’s degradation. In this research work we show different combinations of hydrogen peroxide, titanium dioxide and air, used in the photo catalysis of the 84 orange reactive and waste water samples from textile industry. Results: The optimal concentrations found for 84 orange reactive in a 340 mg/lL concentration are: 40 mg/L of titanium dioxide and 2 mg/L of hydrogen peroxide with no air injection. Conclusion: With an appropriate quantity of titanium dioxide and a well calculated concentration of hydrogen peroxide, very good concentration percentages of the 84 orange reactive and colored waste waters are obtained, besides of high mineralization percentages.Item “Sobre las virtudes y los vicios” de Aristóteles(Corporación Universitaria Lasallista, 2004) Naranjo Boza, NicolásMain theme: History of Ethics. Offers material to think about Ethics as a philosophical problem as well as a practical one. A complete artistotelian text in a Spanish translation from a classical English translation is presented. It includes an Introduction that: 1) Contextualizes the text. 2) Analyzes its formal structure as a didactic method to teach values. 3) Offers and interpretation about how the Ethics of a greek was appropriated by the Roman Catholic Church.Item La historia fascinante de un viaje por la aventura apasionante de aprender y aprenderse(Corporación Universitaria Lasallista, 2004) Castrillón Quintana, OliviaItem Sistemas de levante en crías de vacuno(Corporación Universitaria Lasallista, 2004) Agudelo Gómez, Divier Antonio; Ochoa Doria, Oscar Pedro; Puerta Rico, Luís Fernando; Pineda Sánchez, DavidIn the farms dedicated to milk production, the bovine nursery is fundamental because it is the future of the dairy industry. All of the physiological and digestive aspects of the calves to fulfill their nutritional requirements and promote a fast development of the rumen-reticule complex. There are several breeding systems that can be implemented, from the simplest ones, in which the producer does not have specialized facilities, to the breeding of each animal in an individual corral. Each system has disadvantages and advantages from all of the technical and economical approaches. The quantity of milk provided to the suckling bovines depends on the implemented system and the programs in each farm. Preventive sanitation in any case is imprescindible to guarantee the best growth of the animals.Item Satisfacción de los profesores con los servicios bibliotecarios de la Corporación Universitaria Lasallista, agosto de 2003(Corporación universitaria Lasallista, 2004) Rodríguez Gázquez, María de los Ángeles; Uribe Londoño, Luz MaríaIntroduction:User’s satisfaction is an indicative of the quality of the library’s services, evaluated from the perspective of Faculty members as customers of same service. Objetive: To describe the satisfaction level of the Faculty members with the services provided by the library. Materials and Methods: A descriptive study was made, using as an instrument to acquire the information a self-applied questionnaire. The satisfaction with the library services was evaluated through a 60 items scale, graded from 1 to 5, giving a 1 grade to total discomfort and 5 to a maximum satisfaction. The information was put in a data base made with a SPSS vr. 11.5 statistic software, with which the tabulation plan was made. Results: A total of 70 faculty members were surveyed. During last semester, three out of five of them used the library services one or more times per week, considering this as an appropriate frequency of use. The general satisfaction with this service was graded with a 4.0. According to the faculty’s opinion, the information resources offered by the library are enough, although they suggest an increase in the quantity and quality of books and journals. Conclusion: There is an adequate satisfaction of the Corporación Universitaria Lasallista´s faculty members with the services provided by its library.Item Sobre un arte literario único en las supuestas “fábulas” de Leonardo da Vinci (la unión entre ciencia, amor y arte)(Corporación Universitaria Lasallista, 2004) Naranjo Boza, NicolásThe text deals with the models that inspired Leonardo to make his notes (whether scientific or not). There is a study of his scientific writing which for 500 years has been a paradigm. The article exemplifies that to write well with a scientific approach the world around us must be observed and that language itself must be studied thoroughly. It briefly deals with the diverse writing styles that Leonardo explored. There is a discussion about the so-called “literary fables” actually being fables in the classical sense of the term and rather being scientific notes.Item El desarrollo en Colombia: historia de una hegemonía discursiva(Corporación Universitaria Laslallista, 2004) Restrepo Velásquez, Juan CarlosIntroduction: The following text is a part of the finds of the research “EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS OF THE CONCEPT OF DEVELOPMENT INCLUDED IN THE COLOMBIAN DEVELOPMENT PLANS. CONTINUITIES AND FRACTURES. PERIOD 1950-2000”,which tries to establish, theoretically and from an exploratory analysis line, the historical practice of the concept of development in Colombia, according to the concept of development that appears in its National Development Plans and in similar documents during the second half of the XX Century. This research produced three finds: First, the constant conception of economical growth as the only idea of development. Second, evident fractures and discontinuities in the development speech, due to the imperant focuses about the topic and, third, the foreign speech practices in Colombia’s development. This latter find is the one presented with the title: COLOMBIAN DEVELOPMENT: HISTORY OF A HEGEMONICAL SPEECH. Materials and Methods: This research work is theoretical and is made under qualitative research parameters, allowing us to establish a scientific method to have an adequate approach to the research object and interact with it. The approach of this research is established by following the route offered by the documental and historical research method in the multicyclical framework of qualitative research. In this route, hermeneutics (attained to the hermeneuticalhistorical method) was the focus used to approach the interpretation of texts and the appropriate contexts, with the analysis of contents´ method. By the use of analysis matrixes, common elements are inferred and those, from the exploration we are making, have been called finds. They are duly documented and evidenced afterwards. Results and Main Conclusions: From the speeches used for the national development plans, effects of truth and reality have been created, and this fact has implied a control of the used words that, at the end of the day, is the one that produces the hegemonical speech in this case. This sort of speeches have been consolidated from the profesionalization of development and its raising to an institutional level.Item Detoxificación de banano verde(Corporación Universitaria Lasallista, 2004) Garcés Molina, Adelaida MaríaColombia produces big quantities of banana to export, but a quantity rated between 10% and 20% is rejected because it does not fulfill the required quality standards. Those rejected bananas can not be used to feed animals, because they are containing tannins, which are anti-nutritional substances, and then those bananas get rotten in the farms, causing environmental problems and economical loses for the producers. An alternative for the use of green bananas as animal food is the reduction of their tannin contents by the use of solid-state fermentation, a very advantageous procedure under economical and process efficiency terms.